Notable Historical Events on September 15th
September 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
608 |
St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
668 |
Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. |
921 |
Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. |
1514 |
Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York |
1556 |
Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain |
1584 |
San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished |
1590 |
Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII |
1600 |
Battle of Sekigahara. |
1616 |
The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. |
1619 |
Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary |
1620 |
Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8] |
1621 |
Swedish troops occupy Riga |
1644 |
Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X |
1656 |
England & France sign peace treaty |
1683 |
Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families |
1707 |
Rákóczi II & Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement |
1733 |
King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons |
1762 |
Battle of Signal Hill. |
1774 |
Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured |
1776 |
British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution |
1787 |
-16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam |
1789 |
US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State |
1795 |
Cape Colony surrenders to Britain |
1812 |
French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow |
1820 |
Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century). |
1821 |
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua gain independence |
1830 |
1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila |
1830 |
1st person to be run over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) |
1830 |
Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway |
1831 |
The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. |
1835 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands |
1846 |
Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal |
1851 |
Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1853 |
1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell |
1857 |
Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine |
1862 |
Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV |
1870 |
Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) |
1873 |
Last German troops leave France |
1879 |
Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club" |
1882 |
British general Wolseley occupies Cairo |
1887 |
Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution |
1894 |
Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang |
1898 |
National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY |
1899 |
5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD |
1900 |
A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa |
1903 |
Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals" |
1904 |
Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight |
1910 |
Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
1912 |
Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins |
1912 |
War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania |
1913 |
1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY |
1914 |
Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I |
1914 |
US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico |
1916 |
Debut of tanks in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) |
1917 |
Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government |
1918 |
CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state |
1921 |
Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus |
1921 |
WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 |
1923 |
43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (6-4 6-1 6-4) |
1923 |
Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open |
1923 |
Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror |
1926 |
Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini |
1928 |
400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva |
1928 |
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
1928 |
Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 |
1928 |
Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC |
1928 |
Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season. |
1930 |
1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England |
1931 |
British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts |
1931 |
Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland |
1935 |
Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
1937 |
WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) |
1938 |
British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden |
1938 |
John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) |
1938 |
Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts) |
1940 |
3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) |
1940 |
Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) |
1940 |
Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company |
1940 |
PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group |
1940 |
Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe |
1941 |
Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania |
1942 |
US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal |
1943 |
Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy |
1943 |
Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens |
1943 |
Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens |
1944 |
British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
1944 |
Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
1944 |
US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
1944 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
1944 |
US troops lands on Palau & Morotai |
1945 |
A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. |
1946 |
Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats |
1947 |
First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh |
1947 |
Yanks clinch pennant #15 |
1947 |
RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. |
1947 |
Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750.. |
1948 |
"Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances |
1948 |
F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph |
1948 |
WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM |
1949 |
"Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV |
1949 |
WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea |
1950 |
East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification |
1950 |
For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game |
1950 |
Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19 |
1950 |
UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
1950 |
US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul |
1951 |
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs |
1951 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) |
1951 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum |
1952 |
Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee |
1952 |
European Parliament forms in Strasbourg |
1952 |
UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia |
1953 |
Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) |
1953 |
KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins |
1957 |
"Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres |
1957 |
Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
1957 |
SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game |
1958 |
48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ |
1958 |
Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) |
1959 |
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit |
1960 |
France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments |
1960 |
Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time. |
1961 |
61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus |
1961 |
Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph |
1962 |
"Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs |
1962 |
Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins) |
1962 |
KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls |
1963 |
Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn |
1963 |
Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
1963 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
1963 |
WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland |
1964 |
Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" |
1965 |
"Lost in Space" premieres |
1966 |
1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched |
1966 |
Dutch political party (D'66) forms |
1966 |
Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth |
1966 |
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. |
1967 |
KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
"Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry |
1968 |
NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada |
1968 |
WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) |
1969 |
Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game |
1970 |
Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million |
1970 |
PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan |
1970 |
Rotterdam dock strikes end |
1970 |
Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed |
1971 |
1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV |
1972 |
WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois. |
1972 |
An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport. |
1973 |
Dutch Guilder devalued 5% |
1973 |
Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing |
1973 |
Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles |
1973 |
OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually |
1974 |
Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens |
1974 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
1974 |
Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. |
1975 |
Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game |
1975 |
The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. |
1976 |
Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC |
1976 |
Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days |
1977 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances |
1977 |
Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) |
1977 |
Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs |
1977 |
Rock Music Award |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans |
1978 |
Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1978 |
Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2½ games |
1979 |
Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros) |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" |
1981 |
US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court |
1981 |
Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism |
1981 |
The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC. |
1981 |
Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. |
1982 |
1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc |
1982 |
Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
1983 |
Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway |
1983 |
Israel premier Begin resigns |
1984 |
Morocco Showcase opens |
1984 |
Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England |
1985 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1985 |
Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government |
1985 |
Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings |
1985 |
Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert |
1985 |
Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro |
1986 |
1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV |
1986 |
Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead |
1987 |
Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf |
1988 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna |
1988 |
Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics |
1988 |
Museum of Moving Image in London opens |
1988 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi |
1989 |
The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut. |
1990 |
Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves |
1990 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1990 |
Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 |
1990 |
France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
1991 |
"Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show |
1991 |
19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton |
1991 |
SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds |
1991 |
US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) |
1992 |
Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat |
1993 |
Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament |
1994 |
"Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam |
1994 |
Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten |
1994 |
Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria |
1995 |
Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays |
1996 |
2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16½-15½ at Robert Jones Va |
1996 |
Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final |
1996 |
Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1996 |
Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34 |
1997 |
Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M |
1997 |
Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000 |
1998 |
With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. |
2000 |
Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia |
2004 |
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. |
2011 |
In Canada, the St. Thomas Assembly plant is closed permanently after decades of providing employing to the region of St. Thomas, Ontario and resulting in the loss of roughly 1,400 well-paid jobs |
2012 |
Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s |
2013 |
21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq |
2013 |
27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan |
2013 |
Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor |
2013 |
Edi Rama is elected Prime Minister of Albania |
2014 |
Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland |
2016 |
US, Israel sign $38 billion military aid package |
2016 |
Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover |
2016 |
European Commission plans free wi-fi in public spaces |
2016 |
US lifts decades-long trade sanctions against Myanmar |
2016 |
Hackers leak US Olympic athletes' private medical information |
2016 |
Colin Powell calls Trump 'national disgrace' in email leak |
2017 |
N.Korea fires another missile over Japan, deepening regional tensions |
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